Who is John Lennon?

Imagine all the people
leaving my spectacles alone.
It's easy if you try.

This is what socialized medicine leads to.

Imagine that!

Lennon eh, do they have a Groucho Marx statue as well ?


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Irrelevant and Irrelevanter.

A statue of a dead hippie, in a dead country based on hippie ideology.

Nobody told me there'd be days like these. Strange days indeed. Most peculiar momma.

Now, imagine a Dolly Parton statue. What would you steal?.

Nothing To See Here: Who is John Lennon?

He's that dude who ruled Russia back in the 1980's.

carve the damn specs into the statue....

How many Cubans does it take to wash Lennon's glasses . . .

Mmmmmmm - seven Cuban cigars a day. I'll take that job.

I could swear I remember seeing someone online talking about Cuba and hyping how great it was because people had enough respect for the law that the glasses on Lennon's statue would go unstolen despite not being attached. I guess this myth is busted.

Well, he's already missing his testicles, wallet, and watch...

Just give the statue Lasik, duh.

Instant Karma gonna git you!

PENIS!!

/Sorry, that's what I read it as.

It's like what Lenin said... you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh...

I am the Walrus?

You know what I'm trying to say...

Everybody needs a hobby i guess.

Guarding statues is certainly better than politics.

Can't they just glue on the glasses or something?

here's another clue for you all:

_{the walrus was Paul}

When my wife was doing grad school at Michigan State, loyal fans would surround the statue "Sparty" and camp overnight during weeks leading to the MSU v.s. U of M game. I once took a midnight walk past it from married housing and saw that guy painted in green and white at games (John Spartan?) asleep next to it. This guy was insane; I even saw him at a field hockey game dressed to the hilt in his Spartan regalia "GO GREEEEEEN!!!!!!"

/mid-1990's
//on the subject of guarding statues

Guess those Cuban's don't have any contacts . . .

Gothmolly: Irrelevant and Irrelevanter.

A statue of a dead hippie, in a dead country based on hippie ideology.

+1.

Lennon was an idiot.

Yeah John, "Just stay in your beds all day and grow out your hair!" really accomplishes a lot. Dumb@ss.

My hate burns for him and his craptacular music.

There's nothing wrong with utilizing your fame and success to spread a positive (if not overly idealistic) message.

My god, you guys are cynical.

X_Rated_Shennanigans

My god, you guys are cynical.

It's not rational discourse, it's Fark.com.

ProvehitoInAltum: My hate burns for him and his craptacular music.

Can you send me a copy of your number one album? Always up for brilliant, new music.

Relax. Lennon was musically a genius with some of the songs he came up with. But genius in one field doesn't mean genius in another. Lennon is proof of that.

Looking to him for wisdom is the same as looking to a Master Plumber for sage political advice.

Gothmolly: in a dead country based on hippie ideology

Since when do hippies welcome totalitarianism?

Why the hate all of the time? From my experiences, the hippies I know like to overly relax and are happy not owning so much crap. So what if they don't change their clothes every day? They're happy existing. I'd rather beleaguer type-A assholes who cut people off in traffic and insist that the whole world work 70 hours a week, then work another 10 keeping a perfect lawn.

Give me hippies any day. I'll take a slightly sloppier world any day versus a world full of uptight and neat assholes.

bunner: ProvehitoInAltum: My hate burns for him and his craptacular music.

Can you send me a copy of your number one album? Always up for brilliant, new music.

You don't have to build your own cars to know there are better cars out there than the Yugo. Lennon's music was, effectively crap compared to many of his contemporaries.

"All you need is love"

"I am the Walrus"

Let's see "love keep food in your stomach.

And what the hell was all that Walrus crap all about?

/What a dumb@ss hippie.
//And the Beatles sucked
///Let me guess...you own a Macintosh?

ProvehitoInAltum: Lennon's music was, effectively crap compared to many of his contemporaries

Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper are fantastic albums IMO. Not a bad successive run from '65-'67...three of the top 10 or 20 critically acclaimed albums in history right there.

Poke fun at I am the Walrus all you want to (just a kooky acid song, koo-koo-ka-choo).

Songs like In My Life, Nowhere Man, Tomorrow Never Knows, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite, A Day in the Life, etc., are all excellent, if not monumental, IMO.

By no means am I saying you should like or dislike any particular work of art, of course. Carry on.

ProvehitoInAltum: You don't have to build your own cars to know there are better cars out there than the Yugo. Lennon's music was, effectively crap compared to many of his contemporaries.

Gee, I thought that musical taste was subjective.

Let's see "love keep food in your stomach.

He was eating ok. Til some guy blew his brains out. And he wrote half of what is, arguably, the most successful and widely distributed musical catalogue in the world.

/What a dumb@ss hippie.
//And the Beatles sucked
///Let me guess...you own a Macintosh?

/I see.
//I'll tell Sir Paul to get a job, then
///No. Let me guess. You're one of those bored, shiat stirring trolls who will sling p0o at anything to get a rise out of people?

I hate beets. I don't eat them. No problem.

bunner: ProvehitoInAltum: You don't have to build your own cars to know there are better cars out there than the Yugo. Lennon's music was, effectively crap compared to many of his contemporaries.

Gee, I thought that musical taste was subjective.

Let's see "love keep food in your stomach.

He was eating ok. Til some guy blew his brains out. And he wrote half of what is, arguably, the most successful and widely distributed musical catalogue in the world.

/What a dumb@ss hippie.
//And the Beatles sucked
///Let me guess...you own a Macintosh?

/I see.
//I'll tell Sir Paul to get a job, then
///No. Let me guess. You're one of those bored, shiat stirring trolls who will sling p0o at anything to get a rise out of people?

I hate beets. I don't eat them. No problem.

Not really, I just hate things that are taken as gospel, when in fact, they are far from the truth.

Besides, if sales were the only yardstick of talent, then I think Britney Spears must be a well of musical greatenss.

/I still think the Beatles suck
//Feel free to disagree
///Still hate Lennon

ProvehitoInAltum: Not really, I just hate things that are taken as gospel, when in fact, they are far from the truth.

M U S I C A L T A S T E I S S U B J E C T I V E .

Period.

The end.

Pissing and moaning about a band that found purchase with hundreds of millions of people and made cultural benchmarks for a decade is like complaining about grass. Just pave your lawn and paint it whatever colour grabs your fancy.

bunner: ProvehitoInAltum: Not really, I just hate things that are taken as gospel, when in fact, they are far from the truth.

M U S I C A L T A S T E I S S U B J E C T I V E .

Period.

The end.

Pissing and moaning about a band that found purchase with hundreds of millions of people and made cultural benchmarks for a decade is like complaining about grass. Just pave your lawn and paint it whatever colour grabs your fancy.

Thanks, Captian Obvious.

Why even bother stating something so obvious? I mean, really? No shiat, Sherlock.

ProvehitoInAltum: Not really, I just hate things that are taken as gospel, when in fact, they are far from the truth.

(snip)

Thanks, Captian Obvious.

Why even bother stating something so obvious? I mean, really? No shiat, Sherlock.

Heh. You mention "in fact" that The Beatles are inferior, then deride him with "Captain Obvious" and "No shiat, Sherlock" when somebody brings up the axiom that musical taste is subjective.

I apologize for overestimating you.

ProvehitoInAltum: Thanks, Captian Obvious.

Why even bother stating something so obvious? I mean, really? No shiat, Sherlock.

I would like to thank you for outing yourself as an insufferably ridiculous wankstain with nothing to offer a dialogue but something equal to missing the bowl when you piss.

You have been culled from the herd.

*click*

bunner: ProvehitoInAltum: Thanks, Captian Obvious.

Why even bother stating something so obvious? I mean, really? No shiat, Sherlock.

I would like to thank you for outing yourself as an insufferably ridiculous wankstain with nothing to offer a dialogue but something equal to missing the bowl when you piss.

You have been culled from the herd.

*click*

Eh, losing the audience of a Beatles fan is no loss to me. Have fun with your Mac, loser.